May 25, 2007

The Purple Plugin Pack was originally created by Gary Kramlich and Stu Tomlinson as a way to distribute their ever growing lists of simple Pidgin plugins. It has since grown from its origins of about 6 plugins to over 30. Also, many more developers have continued to add to it, including John Bailey, Peter Lawler, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, and most recently Richard Laager.

The Purple Plugin Pack has several dependencies. Obviously, Pidgin is a required dependency. These plugins cannot build or function without Pidgin. Since Pidgin requires both GTK+ and GLib, the Pidgin Plugin Pack indirectly requires them. Several of the plugins also require GTK+ directly, and all require glib directly.